Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.